The number on my father's arm
Call Number
- SPANISH FICTION ALVA TEEN (EAS, WSQ)
Languages
In English and Spanish.
Publication Information
Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, Piñata Books, 2020.
Physical Description
86 pages ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 7-9. Arte Público Press, Piñata Books.
Summary
After years of wondering about his father's terrifying nightmares and strange tattoo, seventeen-year-old Tomás discovers that Papi was not only deported as a child, he is a World War II veteran and Holocaust survivor. Includes facts about Anthony Acevedo, the first Mexican American to register as a concentration camp survivor, on whose life the story is based.